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Elvis After Elvis: The Posthumous Career of a Living Legend
ISBN: 9780415110020 / Angielski / Twarda / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Nearly 20 years after his death, Elvis Presley enjoys the sort of cultural prominence that would be the envy of even the most highly publicized living celebrities. Elvis is everywhere, sneaking out of innumerable corners of the cultural terrain in ways that defy our common sense understanding of how dead stars are supposed to behave. This phenomenon is noteworthy, not just because Elvis refuses to go away, but because he keeps showing up in places where he seemingly doesn't belong. Drawing on a range of theoretical positions from cultural studies, this study offers a series of explanations...
Nearly 20 years after his death, Elvis Presley enjoys the sort of cultural prominence that would be the envy of even the most highly publicized living...
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Group Communication
ISBN: 9780415111591 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Group Communication introduces applications of small group dynamics. Hartley shows how an understanding of how groups work and interact can improve the chances of successful team communication and cooperation.
Group Communication includes: * critical reviews of group research * explanation of the difficulties and practicalities of observing groups * analysis of major group processes, including conformity and decision-making * analysis and case studies of the management team, student seminar/project groups and self-help groups * practical recommendation for... Group Communication introduces applications of small group dynamics. Hartley shows how an understanding of how groups work and interact can i...
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Baudrillard and Signs: Signification Ablaze
ISBN: 9780415112567 / Angielski / Twarda / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book documents Baudrillard's encounters with semiology and structuralism, detailing his efforts to destroy structural analyses from the inside by setting signification ablaze with his concept of symbolic exchange. The text also reveals Baudrillard's difficulties in attempting to go beyond signification. It situates Baudrillard's work in the broad spectrum of European and American semiotic traditions.
This book documents Baudrillard's encounters with semiology and structuralism, detailing his efforts to destroy structural analyses from the inside by...
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Culture and the Public Sphere
ISBN: 9780415112628 / Angielski / Twarda / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Jim McGuigan discusses cultural policy as a manifestation of cultural politics in the widest sense. Illustrating his case with examples from recent cultural policy initiatives in Britain, the United States and Australia, he looks at:
* The rise of market reasoning in arts administration * Urban regeneration and the arts * Heritage tourism * Race, identity and cultural citizenship * Censorship and moral regulation * The role of computer-mediated communication in democratic discourse Jim McGuigan discusses cultural policy as a manifestation of cultural politics in the widest sense. Illustrating his case with examples from recent cu...
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Consuming Places
ISBN: 9780415113106 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. John Urry has been discussing and writing on these and similar questions for the past fifteen years. In Consuming Places, he gathers together his most significant contributions. Urry begins with an extensive review of the connections between society, time and space. The concept of 'society', the nature of 'locality', the significance of 'economic restructuring', and the concept of the 'rural', are examined in relationship to place. The book then considers how places have been transformed by the development of service occupations and industries. Concepts of the service class and... John Urry has been discussing and writing on these and similar questions for the past fifteen years. In Consuming Places, he gathers toget... |
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Melancholy and the Critique of Modernity: Soren Kierkegaard's Religious Psychology
ISBN: 9780415117227 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work examines the connections between the emergence of modern society and the experience of melancholy. The idea of sadness without a cause has played an important part in human self-understanding throughout the development of Western society. But with the emergence of modernity, melancholy has become its most pervasive and significant experience.
This work examines the connections between the emergence of modern society and the experience of melancholy. The idea of sadness without a cause has p...
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The Sociology of Taste
ISBN: 9780415132947 / Angielski / Twarda / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The modern society of consumption is a society of fashion. Fashion has extended its influence over various fields of social life and, together with taste, become central to our understanding of the inner dynamics of any modern society.
The Sociology of Taste looks at the role of taste - or the aesthetic reflection - in society at large and in modern society in particular. Taking case studies from social life, for example eating and food culture, it illustrates the role of fashion in the formation of collective taste. The modern society of consumption is a society of fashion. Fashion has extended its influence over various fields of social life and, together with ta...
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The Eight Technologies of Otherness
ISBN: 9780415145800 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A bold and provocative re-thinking of identities, politics, philosophy, ethics, and cultural practices. In this ground breaking text old essentialism and binary divides collapse under the weight of a new and impatient necessity.
A bold and provocative re-thinking of identities, politics, philosophy, ethics, and cultural practices. In this ground breaking text old essentialism ...
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Syria and Iran: Middle Powers in a Penetrated Regional System
ISBN: 9780415156752 / Angielski / Twarda / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It has been the dominant view that both Syria in the 1980s and Iran today have acted as rogue states in the Middle East threatening to upset the stability of the region. In this innovative new study, Anoushiravan Ehteshami and Raymond Hinnebusch show that these two countries have in fact acted in a rational fashion pursuing the aim of containing Western influence.
This book demonstrates how Syrian foreign policy resembles the "rational actor" model and Iran's rational factions in government guide its diplomacy. Syria and Iran's foreign policies are shown to be conventional ones, of... It has been the dominant view that both Syria in the 1980s and Iran today have acted as rogue states in the Middle East threatening to upset the stabi...
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Baudrillard's Challenge: A Feminist Reading
ISBN: 9780415180757 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This controversial book is the first systematic feminist reading of the work of Jean Baudrillard, one of the most pivotal figures in contemporary cultural theory, and is essential reading for students of feminist theory, sociology and cultural theory. Drawing on the full range of Baudrillard's writings the author engages in a debate with: * the work of Luce Irigaray, Judith Butler and Rosi Braidotti on identity, power and desire This controversial book is the first systematic feminist reading of the work of Jean Baudrillard, one of the most pivotal figures in contemporary c... |
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Ethnic and Racial Studies Today
ISBN: 9780415181723 / Angielski / Twarda / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection addresses late-1990s developments in the teaching, studying and presentation of race across many disciplines, including sociology, politics, social geography, cultural studies and philosophy. Drawing on research in all these areas, the authors provide an account of controversies and debates and pinpoint directions in research and scholarship that are likely to shape the study of race and ethnicity well into the next century.
This collection addresses late-1990s developments in the teaching, studying and presentation of race across many disciplines, including sociology, pol...
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Where Inner and Outer Worlds Meet : Psychosocial Research in the Tradition of George W Brown
ISBN: 9780415202688 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The importance of George Brown's sustained contribution to medical sociology through his longitudinal studies of psychiatric disorder and its relationship to social context is widely recognised. This collection of seventeen chapters exemplifies a particular way of working as a medical sociologist which focuses on the understanding of the meaning of social experiences as the key to an individual's health status. It combines the biographical richness of qualitative analysis and thus reach conclusions on the basis of statistical significance.
The contributors mainly focus on conditions of... The importance of George Brown's sustained contribution to medical sociology through his longitudinal studies of psychiatric disorder and its relation...
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The Intellectual as Stranger: Studies in Spokespersonship
ISBN: 9780415205849 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Intellectual as Stranger explores the historical association between images of the intellectual and those of the stranger, or the outsider to society. Using detailed case-studies, Pels examines the ambiguous strangerhood of political intellectuals such as Marx, Durkheim, Sorel, Freyer and Hendrik de Man.
The Intellectual as Stranger explores the historical association between images of the intellectual and those of the stranger, or the outside...
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Pro-Social and Anti-Social Behaviour
ISBN: 9780415227605 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Humans have the capacity to help others and be altruistic yet also to be aggressive and unco-operative. The author considers both of these type s of behaviour and the theories psychologists use to explain them. He also looks at these behaviours in relation to everyday situations such as noise, crowding, personal space and culture. Finally, he discusses how pro-social behaviour can be encouraged and anti-social behaviour reduced.
Humans have the capacity to help others and be altruistic yet also to be aggressive and unco-operative. The author considers both of these type s of b...
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Realizing Community: Concepts, Social Relationships and Sentiments
ISBN: 9780415229074 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Community' is so overused both in everyday language as well as in scholarly work that it could easily be dismissed as a truism. However, the persistence of the term itself shows that the idea continues to resonate powerfully in our daily lives, ethnographic accounts as well as theoretical analyses. This book returns a timely and concerted anthropological gaze to community as part of a broader consideration of contemporary circumstances of social affiliation and solidarity.
'Community' is so overused both in everyday language as well as in scholarly work that it could easily be dismissed as a truism. However, the persiste...
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Responsibility: The Many Faces of a Social Phenomenon
ISBN: 9780415235303 / Angielski / Twarda / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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The Criminal Spectre in Law, Literature and Aesthetics : Incriminating Subjects
ISBN: 9780415236065 / Angielski / Twarda / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text traces the roots of contemporary ideas about criminality back to legal, philosophical and aesthetics concepts originating in the 19th century. Building on the ideas of Foucault and Walter Benjamin, Hutchings argues that the criminal, as constructed in places such as popular crime stories or the law of insanity, was an obsession haunting 19th century thought.
This text traces the roots of contemporary ideas about criminality back to legal, philosophical and aesthetics concepts originating in the 19th centur...
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Language, Identity and Conflict: A Comparative Study of Language in Ethnic Conflict in Europe and Eurasia
ISBN: 9780415259507 / Angielski / Twarda / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This innovative study of language and identity in recent and contemporary cases of ethnic conflict in Europe and Eurasia sets out a response to the limitations in the fields of linguistics and political science. Using examples of language policy and planning in conflict situations, it examines the functions of language as a marker of identity in ethnic conflict, and the extent to which language may be a causal factor in ethnic conflict.
This innovative study of language and identity in recent and contemporary cases of ethnic conflict in Europe and Eurasia sets out a response to the li...
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Technoculture and Critical Theory: In the Service of the Machine?
ISBN: 9780415261609 / Angielski / Twarda / 190 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The author explores the work of major thinkers and cultural movements that have grappled with the complex relationship between technology, politics and culture. Subjects such as the Internet, cloning, warfare, fascism and Virtual Reality are placed within a broad theoretical context which explores how humanity might, through technology, establish a more ethical relationship with the world.
Examining the philosophy of writers such as Heidegger, Benjamin, Lyotard, Virilio, and Zizek, and cultural movements such as Italian Futurism, this book marks a timely intervention in critical theory... The author explores the work of major thinkers and cultural movements that have grappled with the complex relationship between technology, politics an...
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Education Policy and Realist Social Theory: Primary Teachers, Child-Centred Philosophy and the New Managerialism
ISBN: 9780415268394 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Europe welfare state provision has been subjected to 'market forces'. Over the last two decades, the framework of economic competitiveness has become the defining aim of education, to be achieved by new managerialist techniques and mechanisms. This book thoughtfully and persuasively argues against this new vision of education, and offers a different, more useful potential approach.
This in-depth major study will be of great interest to researchers in the sociology of education, education policy, social theory, organization and management studies, and also to professionals concerned... In Europe welfare state provision has been subjected to 'market forces'. Over the last two decades, the framework of economic competitiveness has beco...
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